forward facing whiteness

Liz and I were so excited to hear about the Science for Science Fiction conference being held in Melbourne in September. It’s being held by the Royal Society of Victoria, in partnership with Emerging Writers Festival and Aurealis Magazine! It features some of our friends! Our white friends.

14 speakers, 13 of them white. Of course such judgments are superficial. There’s a reason why I legally changed my name to reflect my mother’s — as I grew older, I started to look more like my father, and sometimes you just need a visible sign of your ethnicity. Well, I do. Maybe you don’t.

So of course this is a superficial accusation. But that looks suspiciously like only white people (and one South Asian person) get to write science fiction according to RSV. Right?

Employing Australians First looks suspiciously like employing white people. Also sounds racist and gross and dog-whistle-y. Also Bill Shorten is a dork, and not in the endearing way, but let’s not get distracted.

Sorry this post lacks in-depth analysis. We both had full weekends, and I trust that you know how to do the analysis on this. Plumb the depths of your feelings, you know them to be true.